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 and firt they beat him with their fits, and cudgelled him, at the length having him naked, o cruelly they inged himn, that not being able to indure the pain, the promied to hew them where the treaure was. He hewes unto them a ditch full of tones, which they, out of the great deire they had of the gold, did empty, but finding nothing there, they exclaim on him, and beat him afreh. He acknowledgeth that he knew of no treaure, but through extremity of paine had aid o much, when they had oundly cudgelled him. they with clots afterward beat him into the ditch, and o buried him under that heap of tones. The third day after, thee blouduckers light upon the Pator in the Village of Popowitzh, and after they had mierably tortured him left him half dead, but he recovered, and lived five dayes after, but never aw his two daughters, whom thoe lewd fellowes had led away with them, and hamefully abued.

5. Wencelaus Iakeius was Miniter of Kaunicium, four miles ditant from Prague, whom they carried to Kotelicium beyond Albis, and for the pace of one moneth and omewhat more, they many wayes perplexed him with new invented mockeries: They pit in his face, buffered him with their fits, and not onely o, but left him to the mercy of every vild racall to be beaten: They o trained his head with a knotty cord twined about his head with a tick, that